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Peachtree Group CEO Greg Friedman warned on March 17, 2026 that while AI-driven data center demand is real, record construction levels could tip the market into oversupply. Friedman noted the approaching $1.2 trillion co…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua University alumni, unveiled Kimi K3 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July 2026, claiming it is the world's largest open-source AI model w…
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Touring Capital and Principal VC, with participation from individual researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic, at a $100 million valuation. T…
CuspAI closed a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with participation from Jeff Bezos's Bezos Expeditions and the UK government's Sovereign AI Fund. The Cambridge-based star…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI suspended new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand overwhelmed capacity within 48 hours of launch, the company announced Sunday. The 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model, which t…
Anthropic will discontinue its Conway always-on agent experiment on July 24, 2025, according to a notice on the Conway interface that asks testers to export their data. The shutdown could signal either a full wind-down o…
Moonshot Labs' Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, two state-of-the-art open foundation models launched this week, pose a strategic threat to top-tier model developers like Anthropic by proving that frontier performance is a…
Utopai Studios is producing an AI-assisted animated feature film adaptation of the children's book 'The Most Serious Fart,' written by 'Not Another Teen Movie' screenwriter Mike Bender, who will also write and direct. Th…
Elon Musk denied reports that SpaceX had placed a $52 billion order for NVIDIA GPUs, calling the claim 'fake news' on X. The rumored deal, cited by Taiwanese media, would have involved approximately 1 million GB300 GPUs …
Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have collectively added $70 billion to their capital expenditure plans in a single earnings cycle, pushing projected AI spending for 2026 past $600 billion. Amazon has earmarked over…
Former Microsoft AI leaders behind the $160 million Maluuba acquisition are launching Skyfall AI, a venture that will spend $1 million to acquire a SaaS company and let an AI system run it as CEO, aiming to prove artific…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced plans for a 320 MW sovereign AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area through its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc., targeting deployment of over 100,000 GPUs with a CA…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 model, touted as the world's largest publicly available large language model, sparking debate over whether it marks another DeepSeek moment in the US-China AI race. Counci…
The competition for technology IPOs is increasingly shifting to the years before companies go public, according to SiliconANGLE. As artificial intelligence companies remain private longer, exchanges and investors are vyi…
Microsoft is evaluating Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model for integration into its Copilot service on Azure, a move that could partially displace OpenAI and Anthropic models on one of the world's largest cloud platforms. Kimi …
China's open-weight AI model Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based start-up Moonshot AI, has narrowed the country's artificial intelligence gap with the US to 'a matter of weeks', according to analysts. The 2.8 trillion-pa…
Hut 8 Corp. surged 30-35% after announcing a 15-year triple-net lease worth $9.8 billion for the first phase of its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, covering 352 megawatts of IT capacity for hy…
Tempus AI has agreed to acquire Personalis, Inc. for $1.5 billion, or $16.25 per share, gaining its NeXT Personal minimal residual disease blood test for cancer detection. The deal targets a $20 billion MRD testing marke…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, paused new subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model over the weekend of July 18-19 after daily sales surged at least sixfold following the model's launch around J…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices. StepFun demonstrat…